Lack of new US power capacity could double blackouts by 2030, says Energy Department

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Source: Reuters

July 7, 2025 5:35 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago


July 7 (Reuters) - U.S. power outages could double in five years if suppliers fail to add capacity during peak demand, the Department of Energy said on Monday.

"Blackouts could increase by 100% in 2030 if the U.S. continues to shutter reliable power sources," DOE noted in a report on grid reliability and security.

It cited green policies of the Biden administration as a major reason for the retirement of power plants and the delay in approving their replacements.

The gap between electricity demand and supply is widening, particularly as artificial intelligence drives the need for more power-hungry data centers, it added.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/lack-new-us-power-capacity-could-double-blackouts-by-2030-says-energy-department-2025-07-07/

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Link to Department of Energy PRESS RELEASE - Department of Energy Releases Report on Evaluating U.S. Grid Reliability and Security

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1. More finding out ... dead ahead!

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2. 3.5 years from now

we will need to destroy a bunch of partially constructed new coal power plants... and quickly deploy as much green energy wind and solar ( rooftop solar ) as possible. Or finally descend into 3rd world status after Trump finishes wrecking our economy.

That's if we ever get to have new elections.

The attack on NOAA and the NWS is strictly about hiding climate change... just like the attack on HHS was to hide new viruses and possible new pandemics and to destroy research into new ways to treat human ailments like cancer and viruses through the use of genetic research.

According to the MAGA idiots, all of science is suspect if not outright evil.

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3. This assessment doesn't ask whether we actually need to build the huge data centers to support AI, Crypto, and other

large scale data handling. It assumes we are going to build many of them.

Rather like defense spending increases in an age when conventional, large standing weapons systems have been made considerably irrelevant by advances in drone technology, and cyber warfare.